A bid to improve how people can make changes in Glasgow through petitions has been underway.

Currently Glasgow residents can have a petition considered at a council committee if at least 25 signatures are gathered. Recent petitions included keeping Kibble Palace at the Botanic Gardens free and for the harmful impact of public events to be considered.

A working group has been carrying out a review of the public petitions process to make it better.

Petitioners were also surveyed as part of the review.

Councillors Anthony Carroll, Scottish Greens, and Roza Salih, SNP, took part in the working group alongside a number of community council members.

Councillor Carroll said: “It is regretful we didn’t have a Labour member attending any of the meetings. I’m sure they would have had good contributions to make to the process if they were in the room. I hope we can go forward unanimously on this project as there are good practical ideas.”

He pointed out there were “bugbears” over the website and called for online engagement improvements to be priorities including allowing signatories to come forward for updates.

Councillor Salih said it was a pleasure to be on the working group and hoped engagement with the public petition process improves.

Training is also to be provided to councillors on the process and they will be alerted if a petition has been launched on issues in their ward.

An update was provided to the well-being, equalities, communities, culture and engagement city policy committee yesterday.

A paper presented to the committee said: “The review has highlighted the need to ensure that all citizens in Glasgow are able to access the process more easily and that there are improved procedures in place to make the petitions process more accessible and transparent for everyone. “